[600MRG] My local noise - more info...

[Mike-WE0H]

Sell the house and move to the mountains ;-)

Mike
WE0H
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Ken wrote:
> Much of that noise comes from a 13.6 KV power line that runs right 
> down are alley, parallel to the rear edge of our property, and 
> directly east of me. It is also higher than anything else on our 
> property except a large old pine tree that is around 100 feet tall, 
> and whose top is less than 10 feet from the power-line. My short, 50', 
> low wire is perpendicular to the power line. Personally, I think I am 
> pretty much screwed here for listening. I think the only luck I am 
> going to have is to take one or more of my receivers, one or more of 
> my loops, and 5000' of wire and a 600 ohm resistor to make a Beverage 
> out of, and head out into the boonies. Also, I began using Spectran 
> and another piece of software whose name I cannot now recall with a 
> BC-453 and a laptop many years ago. I like what the software does for 
> receiving, but even that can't really help the noise problem here very 
> much. Also, in order to receive anything even as "quiet" as you can 
> hear on the youtube video, I have to turn off many of the local 
> noise-makers, which include our Bosch dishwasher, our Fisher and 
> Paykell clothes washer (which outputs a wobbly signal exactly on 500 
> Khz), all of the computers in the house, the computer-monitor in my 
> shack (which also outputs an interfering signal in the 500 KHz range), 
> the TV set, and ad infinitum, other junk. I took that youtube video by 
> flashlight. During normal ham radio operations in my shack on 80 
> meters, the local noise level normally sits at S-9 constantly. In 
> order to get any quietness, the entire neighborhood must experience a 
> total power outage, and that only lasts an hour, at most, around here. 
> Not fun, but it used to be much WORSE.... :-( Ken W7EKB